When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.

Civil servants take forever to do anything.

I was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman.

What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.

Perhaps it had nothing to do with sin and everything to do with sociopathy, that most incurable of human disorders because all so afflicted consider themselves blessed rather than cursed.

The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.

I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.